S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate

S. Brent Rodriguez Plate’s teaching and research explore how human sense perceptions affect ways of being religious, and how the operations of religious traditions impact our sensual encounters. Investigating the material cultures of religious traditions, Plate's work is interdisciplinary, moving between developments in cultural anthropology, art history, film studies, and cognitive science, along with religious studies. Among his 14 books are "Blasphemy: Art that Offends" (2006), "A History of Religion in 5½ Objects" (2014), and "Religion and Film" (2nd ed, 2017). He is co-founder and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, and serves on several editorial boards for journals and book series.

Rodriguez-Plate's essays have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Religion Dispatches, The Christian Century, Huffington Post, Killing the Buddha, America, and elsewhere.

For more information, please visit: www.sbrentplate.net

Experience

2008–present

Visiting Associate Professor, Hamilton College

2007–2008

Associate professor, Texas Christian University

2001–2007

Assistant Professor , Texas Christian University

Publications

2017

Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World (2nd ed), Columbia University Press